The Life and work of a tireless Compton, California beat cop.

Baker spent his early years living in Los Angeles suburb if Boyle Heights, a place filled with a variety of ethnicities who had migrated there primarily Latino and African American. The integration came in handy when the family relocated to affordable housing Compton in 1950 and he was sent to Catholic School in nearby watts. As a white boy, he stood out in the predominantly black populated school, but held his own as a natural athlete. Black gang activity soon dominated the western side of the city, while the white citizens organized themselves in the East.By thetime Baker joined themarines,The Watts riots has broken out and Compton became a war zone,spurring the Author to join the Compton Police Department in 1968. Capably tracing his distinguished 18 years career policing "America's most dangerous city", the author briskly narrates a cavalcade of harrowing stories as he graduated from a cation rookie to respected if battered officer ti a seasoned sargent. Par for the course was a violent bloody, racial gang warfare (Baker offers and expansive historical perspective), rescuing rape victims, drug trafficking and their resultant homicides, rampant gunfire over the backlash of smug fearless criminals who threatened law enforcement grip over their dominion. Additionally, Baker received a crash course of the inside politics, corruption and nepotism of the police brigade. Academy award-nominated screenwriter (Nixon, Ali) Revele(co-author: Lieutenant Ramsey's war : From horse soldier to Guerrilla Commander, 2005,ect) able compiled boxes of recordings that created after initially dismissing the offer to tell his life story. The result is an exhaustive, thrilling, ultraviolent story about the end struggle that Compton PD ( who disbanded in 2000) faced in attempting to prevent the city from "dissolving into chaos."

In-your-face-violence and resilient heroism that leaps off the page 16 page black-and-white photo insets : agent Jason Ashlock/Movable type Literary Group <gallery>